New Catallaxy

C.L. has a great piece on PandaCons over at his place: In epidemiology, however, this sort of pro rata flimflam just won’t do. Unlike Australia, America is not an island continent with an oceanic moat; it doesn’t have nine governments but more than 50. Precisely because the United States isn’t largely unpopulated – New York City alone…

This flashed across my FB feed this morning. The kids have got it sussed. It only took Covid to get Dan to fund more adventurous skate parks. We can now fill the hospitals with kids who tried to do a rail slide on a precariously balanced block of concrete.

A growing fascism in Australia is becoming evident and alarming.  Based on the new health status controls of vaccine passports for Covid-19 – we can forget what the Prime Minister would prefer to call them, for these are government mandated identity and travel papers – Australia is dangerously close to authoritarian rule. From media reports…

I’ll point out the obvious, and you can make conclusions. The Orange line represents the average number of deaths for the five years 2015-2019. The Blue area represents the range of deaths for that same period. The Red line represents Deaths last year, running into this year, and the Blue line represents the daily new…

If it is for your own good … then you are locked DOWN. If it is for the greater good, well … then you are locked UP. Easy-peasy, right? If your mind is a fortress, then who keeps the key?

On Saturday, Vikki Campion’s piece, Let our PM be human, rightly attracted a lot of condemnation. My indignation and anger at reading Vikki’s piece has made me think about how inept and useless our state and federal Liberal governments are.  The always superb Professor James Allan has written very well over the years about how supine…

For those tuning in from overseas, no, this isn’t the Nuremberg Rally Reenactment Society’s latest. This is Australian Senator, Jacqui Lambie, defending the rights of her beloved Tasmanians – the role she was elected for. To be fair, at least she’s not doing secret backroom deals to strip us of our rights, whilst we’re locked…

The headline story in The Age today was, “Jab blitz to target city’s north, west”. And this is what it said right there on that front page. Victorians [not women, but Victorians] who are more than 24 weeks pregnant will now be able to get priority access at state-run vaccine hubs. Not only are they…